Improvement in machines for slicing candy



1.1 7 8 9 PATENTE AUG 1 m71 IHHHHIIHI Y EEIQE.

JOHN PRICE ANDERSON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. j

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR SLICING CANDY, &c.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 117,589, dated August 1,1871.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN PRICE ANDERSON, of Philadelphia, county ofPhiladelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a Machine for SlicingCandy, &c., of which the following is a speciiication:

My invention consists of certain mechanism (too fully explainedhereafter to need preliminary description) for cutting or slicing, witha shearing effect, candy, tobacco, paper, and other materials.

Figure 1 is a vertical section of my machine forslicing can dy, 825e.Fig. 2, a front view, partly in section, with the knife elevated; andFig. 3, the same, with the knife depressed.

To a table, A, are secured two standards, B and B', tobsuitablebearings, at the top of which is adapted a shaft, D, furnished with ahandle, a., or, if desired, with a pulley for receiving a belt from anadjacent driving-shaft. To this shaft D is secured a cog-Wheel, E,gearing into a pinion, F, on a shaft, G, which also turns in thestandards B and B', and which has at one end a crank, H, the pin b ofthe latter fitting into a hole in a slide, I, adapted to horizontalV-shaped guides in a cross-head, J, adapted to vertical guides on thestandard B. K is the knife, having a beveled end, u, adapted to aninclination, c, in the standard B, which inclination, on the depressionof the knife, has a tendency to move the same in the direction ofthearroWFig. 2. rlhe upper rounded edge of the knife is arranged to bearagainst concave projections t t on the lower edge of the crosshead J,and in the latter is a recess, j, for receiving the projection t' of theknife, the said recess being large enough to permit the lateral play ofthis projection, which has at the back a groove adapted to aguiding-rib, P, the latter thus serving to suspend the knife from thecross-head. A strip, q, of rubber, or any other suitable spring, has atendency to draw the knife laterally in a direction contrary to thatpointed out by the arrow, Fig. 2, when the said knife is elevated. Thecandy or other material to be sliced is placed on a bed, M, Which isarranged to slide between guides on the table A, and which hasratchetteeth for receiving the end of a pawl, m, hung to an arm, u, on aspindle, c, on the standard B', the said spindle having an arm, f,through a slot, in which passes a pin on the cross-head J. When thecross-head is elevated the knife will occupy the position shown in Fig.2, but on turning the crank-wheel H the cross-head Will be depressed andthe knife will, owing' to the inclination t on the standard B', beforced in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 2, simultaneously with itsdescent, and it must therefore act on the candy or other material with ashearing cut. knife the spring q Will have a tendency to restore it toits original position as it ascends. V Through the medium of themechanism described the bed M will be moved forward as the cross-headrises, and the candy or other material will be presented to the actionof the knife so as to be cut by the latter into uniform slices.

Although I have alluded to candy as the material on which the knife hasto operate, the mechanism may be used for cutting tobacco, paper, or, infact, any other material which will admit of being severed by a knifeoperating with a shearing effect.

I claim- 1. The combination of a cross-head, J arranged to reciprocatein guides, 'with a knife attached to, but arranged to slide on the saidcross-head, and controlled by a stationary inclined plane, allsubstantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the cross-head J, knife K, and its projection i,guided in a recess of the cross-head, and the spring q or itsequivalent.

3. The combination ofthe cross-head .and knife, arranged to operate inthe manner described, with the sliding bed M, and the devices hereindescribed, or their equivalents, for causing the cross-head Vto feed thebed forward.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing Witnesses.

J. P. ANDERSON.

'Witnessesz WM. A. STEEL, FRANKLIN B. RroHARDs.

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